This Old Spring House / The Old Oak Tree

This Old Spring House, also, The Old Oak Tree. . , This old spring house was built by English colonists who in the late years of the 17th century had established a residence close by, climaxing an ocean voyage which ended on the banks of the nearby Eastern Branch., Erected about 1683. The spring house is among the oldest structural relics of the American Colonization Era., The old oak tree according to qualified judgement was more than 125 years old when the spring house was built., This venerable old tree has come to be known as 'The Lincoln Oak' because of traditional conferences under its spreading limbs, between President Lincoln and the commanding officers of the nearby fortifications., It is not a fanciful belief that upon such an occasion, the Civil War president drank of the cooling waters which spring from among its roots.